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The Elusive El Dorado, Essays on the Indian Experience in Guyana
by Basdeo Mangru (Editor)
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- 2005
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This collection of eight scholarly essays brings to a general audience the history of Indians in British Guiana, as the country was then called, during and after indenture. With chapters on emigration from Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, race relations, the infamous wife murders, and the indomitable Bechu, a radical worker imporatnt to the history of Guyana.
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